John Wayne

A fixture on Orlando Sentinel's Fun Stuff channel: local entertainer Curtis Earth will be challenging you in his special brand of trivia each week. If you like what you see, be sure to check out one of his or his crew's live shows around Orlando.

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A fixture on Orlando Sentinel's Fun Stuff channel: local entertainer Curtis Earth will be challenging you in his special brand of trivia each week. If you like what you see, be sure to check out one of his or his crew's live shows around Orlando.

Land. Sea. Land. Sea.
Ferry. Road. Ferry. Road
Fish for lunch. Fish for dinner. Pancakes for breakfast (yes, you can have fish if you really must).
A looping trip west out of Vancouver, British Columbia, means a lot of water and mountains that get in...

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The switch engine was built around 1911 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia...

Maybe it's the long-awaited fantastic weather, but my mind is firmly on the weekend already. So let's look ahead while getting over the hump-day blues.
+ If you're ready to jump in feet first, tonight is the Velvet Sessions concert at Universal's Hard...

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The history
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"A Good Day to Die Hard" isn't just the weakest of the "Die Hard" pictures; it's a lousy action movie on its own terms, even without comparing it to the adored 1988 franchise launch starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, the New York...

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In his easygoing, candid and altogether charming autobiography, or, as he calls it, "Life Itself: A Memoir," Roger Ebert fails to mention me: The nights he and I had many drinks on the porch of his house on Dickens Street and elsewhere, the...

A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn't expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II and the infamous, often-deadly march that got him there. But the former dentist made it to 105,...

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No one can carry water for the GOP and suck up to conservatives like Sean Hannity. And Monday night, he was at the top of his game "interviewing" the GOP's hottest candidate, Michele Bachmann, while mending the 24-hour rift between her...

James Arness, the towering actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon, the strong and commanding symbol of frontier justice on the landmark TV western series "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88.
Arness died of natural causes at his home...

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The cause was...

A La Cañada Flintridge house once owned by Academy Award-winning actor Victor McLaglen has come on the market at $4.95 million.
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